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Participate and Make the Most Out Of Changing Health Care Landscape

05/24/17, 01:30 pm

Every New Year comes with new resolutions to be fulfilled that year. These resolutions are just not reflection of what you are thinking but also carry the wishes that you hope to get that year. Among most of us, the top of the New Year resolution is dedicated to health care. It may be related to stress and weight reduction, giving up smoking or eating healthier, but they are all part of our health or well-being. These resolutions involves making most out of your life during the year.

The period when we are living is going through a transformational time, when the thought about healthcare is changing. Now, people believe more in the proverb that “prevention is better than cure.” Now, you do not take your health care after you are sick, but make changes in your daily habits and conduct regular health examinations to ensure that you have a healthy tomorrow! I believe that when you get information and understand them you too can be agent to live a healthy life, just the way I am.

Get empowered with knowledge

When we have knowledge to know the facts and make healthy choices, we feel empowered. There are three things that determine how we age; they are genetics, environment and the lifestyle we lead. It’s true that we cannot choose our Parents, thus we cannot avoid the genes we are borne with, but we can control the lifestyle and the environment.

There is lot of information which is available to all and sometimes this information can be so contradicting that we fail to understand what can be best for us. Any time there is a dilemma that whether should you stick to what you had believed all these years or follows the new findings. Living a long life with healthy body is a choice that has to be made by you.

Be your best friend

In case of our health, no one can be better person to take care of it other than ourselves. Being grown up it is our duty that we choose between various things like managing stress, eating healthy food, getting enough time to sleep and stay fit physically. Most of the time being busy with other activities we keep these things at bay. This should not be our attitude. We should always be alert about our health and live a balanced life. Before caring for others we need to be healthy to take care of ourselves.

Our body is a system and just like any other system, in order to make it run smoothly it is required to give attention to emotional, mental and spiritual well-being. All these are intertwined with each other and when one aspect fails it will surely affect the others.

Presently, a “whole person” person approach is taken by medical practitioners. Although it may be parallel to many other thoughts yet it differs from alternative medicine too. In this approach a while diagnosing a human being other aspects including his lifestyle is also taken into account. Like if you visit to a Doctor with migraine pain, he will just not give you medicine for that! He will review other factors like your stress level, lack of healthy diet or sleep, a recent injury or something else. While treating you the Doctor may provide you medication or even change in your lifestyle too.

Coordinated Care

The top priority of any physician today is to provide their patients with the top class medical attention. Still now things have change and a better result can be received only if the patient too actively participates in their treatment. Like if they notice every change that they are going through, maintain their medical history, it will be easier for the medical practitioner to treat them. Coordinated care has its own advantage that can be achieved by the patient when they are treated of such difficult illness.

Shared Decision making

I believe that you can get the best medical treatment when your values and preferences are shared with the medical expertise. Shared decision making is a concept where the patients and their health care providers make decision together with their respective knowledge. There are many illnesses where there is more than one way of treatment. In such cases I suggest that you should go various questions that come to your mind and discuss it with your physician. When this approach is taken, the treatment will be easier and simpler.

By being healthy you get a lot of advantages and with the “whole person” concept we are making sure that we will be healthy tomorrow. We should make our New Year resolution in such way so that we can think and practice of a healthy life today and tomorrow.